Conferences / SQLBits
SQLBits 2025
Jun 18–21, 2025 · ExCeL London (Capital Suite), London, England, United Kingdom
- Conference
- SQLBits Database
- Dates
- Jun 18, 2025 – Jun 21, 2025
- Venue
- ExCeL London (Capital Suite)
- Place
- London, England, United Kingdom
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- sqlbits.com
- Recorded
- 24 sponsors · 142 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Neon theme. Pricing page showed no virtual pass; format recorded as in_person. Speakers: 188 approved sessions in the SQLBits session API for this edition (over the ~150 threshold), so only keynotes plus data/AI-platform sessions are recorded (105 sessions: Fabric, Synapse, Databricks/Spark, data lake/lakehouse, data engineering/integration, streaming, AI/ML, Python and similar, selected by session tags and titles). Affiliations are taken from the speaker bios currently on sqlbits.com (may reflect a later employer than at the time of the talk); null where the bio names no employer.
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday | £0 | — | Excl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| 1 day (early bird) | £500 | — | Excl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| 1 day (late) | £650 | — | Excl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| 2 days (early bird) | £900 | — | Excl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| Full conference, 3 days (super early bird, to 24 Jan) | £1,000 | — | Excl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| Full conference (early bird) | £1,200 | — | Excl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| 2 days (late) | £1,200 | — | Excl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| Full conference (advance) | £1,300 | — | Excl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| Full conference (full price) | £1,450 | — | Excl. VAT | web.archive.org |
| Full conference (late, from 13 Jun) | £1,600 | — | Excl. VAT | web.archive.org |
Sponsors 24
Title / headline 1
- Microsoft · Headline
Platinum 1
Gold 14
Startup 4
- Datasparc · Starter
- Four9s · Starter
- Technoforte · Starter
- WellData · Starter
Other 4
- Advancing Analytics · Exhibitor
- Databricks · Digital
- Navicat · Digital
- Threerooms · Exhibitor
Speakers and talks 142
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote: Transform Data into Competitive Edge with Azure | — |
| Grant Fritchey | Redgate | Keynote | The (Data) Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades | — |
| Kellyn Gorman | Redgate | Keynote | The (Data) Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades | — |
| Marco De Sanctis | — | Keynote | Keynote: Transform Data into Competitive Edge with Azure | — |
| Patrick LeBlanc | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote: Transform Data into Competitive Edge with Azure | — |
| Priya Sathy | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote: Transform Data into Competitive Edge with Azure | — |
| Shireesh Thota | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote: Transform Data into Competitive Edge with Azure | — |
| Uros Milanovic | Microsoft | Keynote | Keynote: Transform Data into Competitive Edge with Azure | — |
| Adithya Kumaranchath | Microsoft | Speaker | Accelerating Your Oracle Modernization Journey to Azure SQL using Gen AI capabilities | — |
| Agata Guziur | — | Speaker | Once upon a time in Discovery Phase. | — |
| Aitor Murguzur | Microsoft | Speaker | Data Engineering with Microsoft Fabric Spark and Lakehouse | — |
| Alexander Arvidsson | Advania Sweden AB | Speaker | Success Factors for Business Reporting | — |
| Alpa Buddhabhatti | — | Speaker | Create Multimodal Agent with Microsoft Fabric and Azure AI Foundry | — |
| Amar Digamber Patil | Microsoft | Speaker | 10 Free SQL Databases: Your Playground for AI, Advanced Analytics, and Next-Gen Applications! | — |
| Amar Digamber Patil | Microsoft | Speaker | Azure SQL Unleashed: Performance, AI, and Next-Gen Scalability | — |
| Amy van Bijsterveldt | — | Speaker | A Junior Data Engineer's Story of Success and Struggle | — |
| Andrew Edge | — | Speaker | One SKU, Two SKU, Old SKU, New SKU | — |
| Andy Cutler | — | Speaker | The Battle of the Lakehouse: Delta lake, Iceberg, and Hudi. | — |
| Anna-Maria Wykes | — | Speaker | DevOps Magic for Successful Data Projects | — |
| Arda Aytekin | Microsoft | Speaker | Building Advanced Agentic Apps with PostgreSQL on Azure | — |
| Arda Aytekin | Microsoft | Speaker | Driving Enterprise Performance with Azure Database for PostgreSQL | — |
| Ásgeir Gunnarsson | — | Speaker | Fabric Monitoring Made Simple: Built-In Tools and Custom Solutions | — |
| Ashley Graham-Brown | — | Speaker | Beneath the hood of AI | — |
| Asif Mujawar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | From Data to Intelligence: MSSQL Server as Your Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Foundation | — |
| Baris Furtinalar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Streamline SQL Server operations with Generative AI agents on AWS | — |
| Barney Lawrence | Simpson Associates | Speaker | What's What and Who's Who? Cross System Record Linkage with Fabric | — |
| Barney Lawrence | Simpson Associates | Speaker | One SKU, Two SKU, Old SKU, New SKU | — |
| Ben Wright-Jones | Microsoft | Speaker | Responsible AI: from principles to practice | — |
| Benni De Jagere | Microsoft | Speaker | Copilot in Fabric - Explained for the Administrator! | — |
| Benni De Jagere | Microsoft | Speaker | Using Lakehouse Data at scale with Power BI, featuring Direct Lake mode | — |
| Bob Duffy | — | Speaker | Automating Star Schemas in Fabric DW | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL Server 2025: The AI-ready enterprise database from ground to cloud | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | SQL Server 2025 and AMD in the era of AI | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | A Deep Dive into SQL database in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Workshop | Building AI Applications with SQL: Ground to Cloud to Fabric | — |
| Bob Ward | Microsoft | Speaker | Meet the Azure Data Leadership team | — |
| Brian Bønk | — | Speaker | Getting Started with Kusto Query Language (KQL) for Real-Time Intelligence | — |
| Brynn Borton | Tekantis | Speaker | Geospatial Meets Big Data: Transforming Location Intelligence | — |
| Carlos Contreras | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | How Formula 1 automated their SQL Server Database Ops & Health Checks on AWS, using AI Agents | — |
| Carlos Contreras | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Natural Language to TSQL: Mininimizing LLM Hallucinations in SQL Server database queries on AWS | — |
| Chan Zaw | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | AWS fundamentals for the accidental SQL Server DBA | — |
| Chris Webb | Microsoft | Speaker | Fabric Power Hour | — |
| Chrissy LeMaire | — | Speaker | Mind the Gap: Bridging PDFs and SQL Server with AI | — |
| Christian Henrik Reich | Microsoft | Speaker | Outperform Spark with Python Notebooks in Fabric | — |
| Claire Edgson | — | Speaker | Enhancing Microsoft Fabric with Power Automate | — |
| Connor Evans | DBSync | Speaker | From batch to real-time CDC: The Future of SQL Data Pipelines | — |
| Damir Bulic | — | Speaker | Super-fast migration to Fabric | — |
| David Harmon | AMD | Speaker | SQL Server 2025 and AMD in the era of AI | — |
| David Kofod Hanna | — | Speaker | 20 Power Query (M)agic Tips That Every User Should Know | — |
| Denis Selimovic | — | Speaker | Microsoft Fabric meets Databricks Unity Catalog: leveraging metadata across both worlds | — |
| Djordje Jeremic | Microsoft | Speaker | Azure SQL Managed Instance Demo Party | — |
| Dorian Van den Heede | Dataroots | Speaker | 🎲 Your best Bet: Effortless MLOps with dbt | — |
| Doug Leal | CGI | Speaker | Cutting Through the Buzz: LLM, Agents, RAG, and GPT - Making Sense of Generative AI | — |
| Edgar Cotte | — | Speaker | Fabric Real-Time Intelligence for Power BI Pros | — |
| Emir Ayar | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | Streamline SQL Server operations with Generative AI agents on AWS | — |
| Erin Stellato | Microsoft | Speaker | Maximizing what's new in SQL tools and their Copilots | — |
| Erwin de Kreuk | InSpark | Speaker | Building a Fortress of Your Fabric Environment: Best Practices for Data Engineers | — |
| Fabian Gutierrez Ardts | — | Speaker | The path to Bundle your Databricks projects | — |
| Falek Miah | — | Speaker | DevOps Magic for Successful Data Projects | — |
| Felicity Nyan | Microsoft | Speaker | AI Agents in Action: Enhancing Applications with Azure AI Services | — |
| Gabi Münster | — | Speaker | Fabric Real-Time Intelligence for Power BI Pros | — |
| Gabi Münster | — | Speaker | What does Microsoft Purview offer for Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Giran Moodley | — | Speaker | Unleash the Power of Data: Building Dazzling Databricks Apps in Minutes! | — |
| Guy Baulch | — | Speaker | AI-Powered Schema Conversion: Simplifying Database Migrations with AWS DMS | — |
| Hamish Watson | — | Workshop | Delivering Database & Data Warehouse Changes Faster, Securely, and Reliably | — |
| Hector Sven | — | Speaker | SQL Meets Fabric: Migrate and version-control your SQL workloads | — |
| Holly Smith | — | Workshop | Data Engineering with Databricks | — |
| Hugo Barona | — | Speaker | AI Agents in Action: Enhancing Applications with Azure AI Services | — |
| Hylke Peek | — | Workshop | The Fabric Playbook: Managing, Maintaining & Delivering | — |
| James Bentley | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Converse with your SQL Database using AI Agents | — |
| James Dales | — | Speaker | Geospatial Meets Big Data: Transforming Location Intelligence | — |
| Jean Joseph | Microsoft | Speaker | Data Labeling in Azure Machine Learning: A Comprehensive Guide for Image and Text Data | — |
| Jerry Nixon | Microsoft | Speaker | Developing AI applications with SQL AI: Ground to Cloud to Fabric | — |
| Jerry Nixon | Microsoft | Speaker | Workflows of Highly Functional App & Data Engineering Teams | — |
| Joana Barbosa | DevScope | Speaker | Empower Your Data with Real-Time Intelligence leveraging Data Activator within Fabric | — |
| Jon Lunn | — | Speaker | Build a Lakehouse in an Hour with CF.Cumulus | — |
| Just Blindbæk | — | Speaker | Fabric Monitoring Made Simple: Built-In Tools and Custom Solutions | — |
| Kasper de Jonge | Microsoft | Speaker | Unlocking AI Potential: Leveraging Your Data with Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Kasper de Jonge | Microsoft | Speaker | Fabric security: everything you need to know! | — |
| Kellyn Gorman | Redgate | Speaker | The Battle for Data Protection in AI and Data Analytics in Today’s World | — |
| Laura Graham-Brown | — | Speaker | Enhancing Microsoft Fabric with Power Automate | — |
| Laura Graham-Brown | — | Speaker | Dynamic Power Query | — |
| Liping Huang | Tabular Editor | Speaker | Bridging DevOps Across Power BI & Databricks with Tabular Editor | — |
| Luke Menzies | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Converse with your SQL Database using AI Agents | — |
| Luke Moloney | Microsoft | Speaker | Using log data in Fabric Real Time Intelligence - a practical example with Spark | — |
| Marcelo Fernandes | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | AI-Powered Schema Conversion: Simplifying Database Migrations with AWS DMS | — |
| Marius Panga | Databricks | Speaker | Bridging DevOps Across Power BI & Databricks with Tabular Editor | — |
| Mark Pryce-Maher | Microsoft | Speaker | Best Practices for Building a Data Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Mark Pryce-Maher | Microsoft | Speaker | Transform your business with integrated solutions using SQL database in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Mark Pryce-Maher | Microsoft | Speaker | Unlocking the Power of Open Mirroring in Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Mark Pryce-Maher | Microsoft | Speaker | Fabric Mirroring for SQL Server | — |
| Maryleen Amaizu | Redgate | Speaker | Evaluating the realism of synthetic data in DevOps | — |
| Megan Livadas | — | Speaker | Building your BI Team in a Fabric world | — |
| Michael Victor | — | Speaker | Great expectations for your data quality | — |
| Mihail Mateev | EPAM | Speaker | Deep Dive into Predictive Analytics using Azure Open AI GPT-4-TV and GPT-4o models with Vision | — |
| Mike Dobing | — | Speaker | Unleash the Power of Data: Building Dazzling Databricks Apps in Minutes! | — |
| Mike O Donnell | Quest | Speaker | Title: Data Modelling: The Timeless Foundation of Modern Data Platforms | — |
| Mo Mohoboob | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | AWS fundamentals for the accidental SQL Server DBA | — |
| Muazma Zahid | Microsoft | Speaker | 10 Free SQL Databases: Your Playground for AI, Advanced Analytics, and Next-Gen Applications! | — |
| Muazma Zahid | Microsoft | Speaker | Azure SQL Unleashed: Performance, AI, and Next-Gen Scalability | — |
| Muazma Zahid | Microsoft | Workshop | Building AI Applications with SQL: Ground to Cloud to Fabric | — |
| Muazma Zahid | Microsoft | Speaker | Developing AI applications with SQL AI: Ground to Cloud to Fabric | — |
| Nikola Zagorac | Microsoft | Speaker | Data Streaming for Modern Applications in SQL Server 2025 and Azure SQL | — |
| Nikola Zagorac | Microsoft | Speaker | Azure SQL Managed Instance Demo Party | — |
| Olivier Van Steenlandt | — | Speaker | Apache Spark for SQL Data Warehouse Developers | — |
| Patrick LeBlanc | Microsoft | Speaker | Deep Dive into Power BI Direct Lake - Part 2 | — |
| Patrick LeBlanc | Microsoft | Speaker | Meet the Azure Data Leadership team | — |
| Patrick LeBlanc | Microsoft | Speaker | Deep Dive into Power BI Direct Lake - Part 1 | — |
| Paul Andrew | Cloud Formations | Speaker | Build a Lakehouse in an Hour with CF.Cumulus | — |
| Paul Andrew | Cloud Formations | Speaker | Building Near Real-time Data Solutions in Microsoft Azure & Fabric | — |
| Paul Andrew | Cloud Formations | Speaker | An Introduction to Delta Lake and The Lakehouse | — |
| Paul Tran | Amazon Web Services | Speaker | From Data to Intelligence: MSSQL Server as Your Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Foundation | — |
| Pedro Reis | — | Speaker | Is Your Data Job Safe? Adapting to the Age of AI | — |
| Pieter Vanhove | Microsoft | Speaker | Securing your SQL database in Fabric is as easy as 1-2-3 | — |
| Prathyusha(Prathy) Kamasani | Data Nova | Workshop | Real-World Data Engineering: Practical Skills for Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Priya Sathy | Microsoft | Speaker | Meet the Azure Data Leadership team | — |
| Reid Havens | Havens Consulting | Speaker | Well-Architected Fabric Solution: A Medallion First Approach - Part 2 | — |
| Reid Havens | Havens Consulting | Speaker | Well-Architected Fabric Solution: A Medallion First Approach - Part 1 | — |
| Richard Conway | Elastacloud | Speaker | Fuzzy Matching with Azure OpenAI Vector Embeddings | — |
| Rob Sewell | — | Speaker | What makes a good commit? Good Practices for Data Professionals | — |
| Sam Debruyn | — | Speaker | From Fabric to Fantastic: How dbt Makes Your Lakehouses and Warehouses Shine | — |
| Scott Bell | RapidData | Speaker | Danger in Dialogue: The Security Risks of Large Language Models | — |
| Shireesh Thota | Microsoft | Speaker | Meet the Azure Data Leadership team | — |
| Simon Whiteley | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Automating Engineering with AI | — |
| Sónia Cruz | DevScope | Speaker | Empower Your Data with Real-Time Intelligence leveraging Data Activator within Fabric | — |
| Stefan Koch | b.telligent | Speaker | Microsoft Fabric meets Databricks Unity Catalog: leveraging metadata across both worlds | — |
| Štěpán Rešl | DataBrothers | Speaker | Dataverse in connection with Power BI and Microsoft Fabric | — |
| Steve Campbell | Analytic Endeavors | Speaker | Well-Architected Fabric Solution: A Medallion First Approach - Part 1 | — |
| Steve Campbell | Analytic Endeavors | Speaker | Well-Architected Fabric Solution: A Medallion First Approach - Part 2 | — |
| Sudhir Kumar Raparla | Microsoft | Speaker | Accelerating Your Oracle Modernization Journey to Azure SQL using Gen AI capabilities | — |
| Sue Bayes | — | Speaker | AI Meets Analytics: Unlocking Real-World Insights with OpenAI's GPT in Python | — |
| Sue Bayes | — | Speaker | Web Scraping Made Simple: Unlocking Data with Beautiful Soup | — |
| Sue Bayes | — | Workshop | Python - The Essential Swiss Army Knife for Your Data | — |
| Tarun Kumar | DBSync | Speaker | Breaking the Bottleneck: Optimizing SQL Replication for Scale | — |
| Tom O'Neill | Silk | Speaker | Accelerating SQL on Azure while Managing Cost at Enterprise Scale | — |
| Tom O'Neill | Silk | Speaker | Supporting AI & Vector Extensions on High Performance SQL Databases | — |
| Tomasz Kostyrka | — | Speaker | From B-Trees to V-Order. Told differently than usual. | — |
| Tori Tompkins | Advancing Analytics | Speaker | Evaluating LLMs in Databricks with RAGAS and MLFlow | — |
| Uros Milanovic | Microsoft | Speaker | Azure SQL Managed Instance Demo Party | — |
| Warwick Rudd | SQL Masters Consulting | Speaker | Improve productivity quickly by integrating new Fabric Task Flows for Better Project Management | — |
| Wasim Ahmad | — | Speaker | Unleash the Power of Data: Building Dazzling Databricks Apps in Minutes! | — |
| Will Needham | — | Workshop | DP-700 in a Day: Get Ready for Fabric Data Engineer Associate Certification | — |